1889-] Sclnveine-Seuche and the " Sivine Plagued 899 
The fact that the Wild-seuche attacks cattle and hogs on the 
same territory and under the same circumstances is absolute 
proof that it has no identical connection with our real swine- 
plague. 
The investigators of the government of the United States assert 
that its peculiar swine-plague is identical with the German, and 
mainly upon bacteriological resemblances. I freely admit that 
should Peters' assertions become proven these observers would 
have a strong case against me, but I place equally strong reliance 
that they have none upon the previously noted fact that in no 
other reported investigations in Germany have we mention of 
intestinal lesions with or without pneumonia in a single case of 
the Loeffler-Schiitz disease, and also upon Schutz's conclusions 
upon the Danish swine-pest and the disease in England. 
On the other hand, in all the practical experiences of the past 
forty years in this country among our farmers we have no record 
of a single pestiferous disease of a " wide-spread " character at- 
tacking cattle and hogs at the same time and under the same 
conditions. 
Have we any such evidence with regard to the German 
Schweine-seuche ? 
Although not so exact as could be desired, we have some. 
Bleisch and Fiedeler say that " the owner of the stable (in 
which the hogs they had examined had died of Schweine-seuche) 
placed fourteen calves therein, and that some of them died, 
which caused them to investigate whether the disease Schweine- 
seuche was transmissible to calves. 
" In order to prove this they inoculated two calves with a 
bouillon culture of known virulence, the one subcutaneously with 
I ccm., the other in the right lung with y^ ccm. of the same. 
" The first died six hours after the inoculation." — P. 429. 
The same microorganism as those injected was found in all 
the organs, and controlled in the necessary manner. 
The second calf was not seriously affected. Insignificant in 
extent as this evidence is, it points in support of my hypo- 
thesis and assertions. 
